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If you're dissatisfied in your current position, fantasize about doing something else with your life, or have just unceremoniously been given a pink slip, take heart. It's never too late to start fresh and forge ahead on a fulfilling new career path. Alexandra Levit, career columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has interviewed dozens of individuals who have successfully switched careers—many of them more than once—and provides...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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America's Reinvention Coach offers readers the tools they need to navigate the full arc of career change. Part I introduces the Reinvention Mindset while Part II offers real-life stories of individuals who have made the leap to new careers.
4) I don't know what I want, but I know it's not this: a step-by-step guide to finding gratifying work
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016].
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English
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"Changing careers, conducting a job search, or starting a business is more complicated than ever before. Jansen has updated her classic guide to address the unique challenges of today's job market, from the ever-more important world of social media to new ways of funding your own endeavors online. Filled with quizzes, personality assessments, and real-life examples, this guide [aims to help] you identify the type of work you're best suited for"--Amazon.com....
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English
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Career paths look nothing like they did in days past. We work more hours at more jobs for more years than ever before. It's vital that we know how to find work that allows us to remain true to who we are, work that connects us to something larger than ourselves. Leider and Shapiro give us a new way to uncover our gifts, passions, and values and find work that expresses them.
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Starting on the first day you got paid to scoop ice cream or restock shelves, you've had the chance to develop the four elements all great careers have in common: relationships, skills, character, and hustle. You already have each of those, to one degree or another. Now it's time to amplify them and apply them in a new way, creating a Career Savings Account"--Amazon.com.
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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With more than 10 million copies sold in 28 countries, the world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2020, tailoring Richard Bolles's long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers. What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually with more than ten million copies sold. This newly streamlined edition features the latest...
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Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2016].
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English
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"Through inspiring stories of those who have successfully landed their dream career, as well as actionable tools, exercises, and thought experiments, he'll guide you through today's vast menu of career options to discover the work perfectly suited to your unique interests, skills, and experiences," from Amazon.
Demonstrates how to enjoy greater career success and personal fulfillment by finding one's life calling, with recommendations beyond the...
10) Math at work
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Her Own Words
Pub. Date
©1997
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English
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Using still pictures with voice over, the producers show thirteen women ranging from a helicopter pilot, an architect, a police officer, and a firefighter, to machinists and welders, and highlight how they use mathematics on the job.
11) Military-to-civilian career transition guide: the essential job search handbook for service members
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JIST Works
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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English
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Operation Job Search is the ultimate guide for US military veterans seeking employment after discharge. It provides information about the civilian workforce, rubrics for navigating one's career, and a list of essential resources to consult during the job search. Also included are sections dedicated specifically to suggestions and resources available to female veterans.
Weiss explains that hiring managers and human resources directors hire veterans...
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GT Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school where he meets Megan, a teacher, and becomes close with a young boy named Charlie. His world is turned upside down when the lives of the woman he loves and an innocent young...
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Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film chronicles 10 of their stories: three of the world's foremost...
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